104 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-10 and hi-hat through bars 11-104.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-27 and 29-35, and 4 more places -- 85% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
13
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 7 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
104 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.